Seamless handover of a mobile station from a macro base station to a privately accessible femto base station

摘要

In an embodiment, a method is provided that includes receiving a handover request for a mobile station to be handed over to a macro base station. Identification information for the mobile station is received. The identification of the mobile station is compared with stored association information that includes identification information of a femto base station, and identification information for a particular mobile station. The method further includes identifying that the mobile station identification information matches the identification information for an associated mobile station using the stored association information. The information regarding the associated femto base station is transmitted to the associated mobile station.

主权项

1. A method, comprising,
receiving a handover request for a femto base station serving a mobile station to handover service of the mobile station to a macro base station; receiving a handover confirmation message including identification information and physical layer (PHY) parameters of the femto base station and an operation code to store association information and the identification information for the femto base station; in response to receiving the handover request, creating the association information by associating the identification information for the femto base station with the mobile station; and storing the identification information for the femto base station and the association information at the macro base station or an access service network gateway.